6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am
1.0. 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
God Rest You Merry Readings and music for Christmas Week by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK and the ST MARTIN SINGERS
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
For five years. 1786-1791. Fanny Burney, the novelist, was a Mistress of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. Fanny found life at Court a gruelling, at times even hair. raising occupation, but she also saw the funny side of things and in her famous diary she faithfully recorded what she saw and heard. abridged by FRANCES HITCHINS Read by Jill Balcon
Produced by JOHN CARDY First of nine instalments
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
3: Children Off Your Hands?
Parents receive much advice on the care of babies and young children; but when the children are older Mother is encouraged to return to work because, so the argument runs, ' the children are off her hands.' But is this really true? LESLIE SMITH talks to parents, teenagers, schoolteachers, and a consultant psychologist.
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
THE COSMOPOLITANS
NEM p 90; All glory to God in the sky (BBC HB 29): Psalm 121: Isaiah 63, vv 7-17; On Jordan's bank (BBC HB 38)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest MARIAN DAVIES BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by IAIN SUTHERLAND Produced by EDDIE FRASER
2: ' Old Buddha Tsu-Hsi . the Empress Dowager of China Narrator NEIL FREEMAN With ELISABETH SLADEN
DAVID MAHLOWE , MARAH STOHL
JENNIFER PIERCY , PAUL WEBSTER
and an armful of records
(Edited version of last Wednesday's broadcast)
Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON
JUNO ALEXANDER, SHEILA VAN DAMM JENNY RUSSELL
In the chair ANONA WINN
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Thursday, 7.0 pm)
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Story: Oliver Owl 's Carol Party by URSULA HOURIHANE
from STEVE RACE including a selection from the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND Produced by DAVID ALLAN
11: The Missing Marriage
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six famous murder trials from the Assize Courts of provincial England
6: Merrifield - Blackpool 1953
with his choice of records
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including ' Sturt of the Murray MICHAEL LANGLEY talks to JACK SINGLETON about his book on the Father of Australian Exploration who died 100 years ago
Vegetables in a Vacuum: PETER MUNN investigates the revolutionary effects on consumers and growers of a new form of packaging
' I was the lantern carrier ...': EVE CLAXTON recalls carol-singing round farms and villages on the Yorkshire moors long ago
Garden Lore for January from FRED LOADS
A series of stories about children chosen by GUY CULLINGFORD Sredni Vashtar by SAKI Reader PETER TUDDENHAM and The Lambyard by GERALD BULLETT
Reader ELIZABETH PROUD
and programme news
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Stop Press: introduced by TIM GUDGIN
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring, starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer and Francis Matthews as Henry
Jennifer has been feeling a bit tired and listless; and the behaviour of Henry (along with all the other men) at a party to meet the young fiancée of one of Henry's colleagues, doesn't improve matters. Back home, Jennifer's attempts to be 'with it' are wild, man, wild!
(Repeated: Sunday, 12.25 pm)
A duel of words and wit between
FYFE ROBERTSON FENELLA FIELDING
BASIL BOOTHROYD and HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
MICHAEL TRUBSHAWE
BARBARA KELLY
Referee PETER HAIGH
' Call My Bluff ' devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman
Produced by JOHN CASSELS
FFRANGCON DAVIES (piano) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conductor JOHN CAREWE
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2. in F minor
Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat major (K 543)
Compiled and narrated by JOSEPH HONE
What has happened socially and economically in Egypt since the June war of 1967? What is the present mood on the ' home front ' in Cairo-what of President Nasser's 'war of attrition' against Israel, and what roads are left towards peace?
Produced by ALAN BURGESS
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which ANTHONY BROWN introduces letters from today's post-bag
O soft embaltner of the still midnight
NICOLETTE BERNARD presents an anthology of delectable verse. prose, and song, specially compiled for bed time listening by KEITH HINDELL
Phtneas Redux by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round read by DAVID MARCH (2)
Dvorak
Toying: Sorrowful reverie; Furiant (Poetic Tone Pictures) HAMISH MILNE (piano) Five Bagatelles, Op 47 Members of the DELME STRING QUARTET Jürgen Hess (violin)
Galina Solodchin (violin) Joy Hall (cello)
HUBERT DAWKES (harmonium)
(Bagatelles broadcast on S December 1968)
